Scale Modeling: We do it for the inhalants

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grassy gnoll: Aug 27, 2006; The pawsting business is tough work.

Ensign Expendable posted:

That's a great looking M3, how did you do the periscopes? The T-34 also looks great, but it looks like it has less detail than the much smaller M3.

Little dab of sky blue and French mirage blue at about 1:1, plus some varnishing to catch the light. Basic as possible.

I can only assume it's the relative age of the kits. The T-34's from 2007, while the M3's a relatively recent 2015, well into Zvezda's new CAD sculpting at that scale. For a dirt-cheap kit, I gotta say the M3's pretty nice. The strangest omission is the headlights being blank monoliths, but that seems to be Zvezda's style at that scale.

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# ? May 30, 2024 10:37

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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You have to remember that the Zvezda 1/100 kits are wargaming miniatures that just happen to end up in model kit shops. They're designed to be pushed around on a board. Really nice and cheap for what they are, but you can likely find better detailed versions out there if you want to pay a bit more and buy five at once.

NTRabbit posted:

But how will the fellas shoot people?

Very well, thank you.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 16:50

Darth Brooks: Jan 15, 2005; I do not wear this mask to protect me. I wear it to protect you from me.

The worst kit I've ever put together was Revell's F4U Corsair. The main fuselage refused to fit together. If I remember correctly one side was longer than the other. It put me off Revell for a long time.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 19:13

Unkempt: May 24, 2003; ...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...

Darth Brooks posted:

The worst kit I've ever put together was Revell's F4U Corsair. The main fuselage refused to fit together. If I remember correctly one side was longer than the other. It put me off Revell for a long time.

Is that the 32nd scale one? I picked one of those up for about $4 around 5 years ago and it's still sitting in the stash.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 19:17

Darth Brooks: Jan 15, 2005; I do not wear this mask to protect me. I wear it to protect you from me.

Sounds right. Did they ever retire that mold?

# ? Feb 21, 2022 19:37

Unkempt: May 24, 2003; ...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...

Looks like you can still pay $50 for it on Amazon, which is fuckin criminal really.

https://www.amazon.com/Revell-Germany-Vought-Corsair-Plastic/dp/B0002HZ22W

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MyronMulch: Nov 12, 2006

lol at that review:

"Pat�tico"

# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:34

Smoke: Mar 12, 2005; I am NOT a red Bumblebee for god's sake!; Gun Saliva

Kind of amazing that that mold is almost twice as old as the original plane it's based on was when the mold was made.

# ? Feb 21, 2022 20:37

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Since I've got all my paints on the new rack now, I hacked up one of the older tiered racks I was using and made a glue-station with some light modification. Nice 15 minute project.

# ? Feb 26, 2022 09:04

Chuck_D: Aug 25, 2003

I'd buy a couple.

# ? Feb 26, 2022 14:29

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

ICM just announced they're out of action for a while, for obvious reasons :ohdear:

# ? Feb 26, 2022 15:33

Unkempt: May 24, 2003; ...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...

NTRabbit posted:

ICM just announced they're out of action for a while, for obvious reasons

There's a lot of kit manufacturers in Ukraine including some of my favourites. I've built a bunch of stuff from Dora and MikroMir.

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Dear friends,

This morning (02/24/2022 at about 5 am) Russia started an undeclared war with Ukraine. Rocket and bomb attacks were carried out on the main cities of Ukraine, including the city of Dnipro, where we are now. To be honest, it's not the most pleasant feeling to wake up from the sound of a rocket flying over the house ... But, we believe in our army and that everything will be fine.

Thanks everyone for the words of support! This is infinitely important for us and helps a lot not to fall into despondency.

We love you all! Once again many thanks!!!

As soon as this madness is over, we will continue to work on new interesting model kits.

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Dear friends. I apologize to everyone to whom I did not have time to send parcels. I hope I can do it next week. You have all read the news. You all know. We were attacked, this is war. Everyone sees the situation differently. In the morning, I put several boxes of produce in my car. What will happen next we will see. I have 10 737-800 in my car and some 1/144s.

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As you may already know, Russia started a military invasion of Ukraine 12 hours ago. The war has been started....

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Dear friends.

Russia attacked our country.

The country is under martial law.

All shipments have been suspended.

Please be understanding.

Keep in touch.

# ? Feb 26, 2022 16:31

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Yeah that kinda puts a damper on building military scale models. Turns out there's such a thing as too much realism :ohdear:

*see "TOS-1 Buratino, location: UA, Ukraine"*

Wednesday: :neckbeard:

oh good it's close shipping
Thursday: :gonk:

# ? Feb 26, 2022 17:00

Symetrique: Jan 2, 2013

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Since I've got all my paints on the new rack now, I hacked up one of the older tiered racks I was using and made a glue-station with some light modification. Nice 15 minute project.

It�s like a beer flight but with more flavor

# ? Feb 27, 2022 22:30

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Symetrique posted:

It�s like a beer flight but with more flavor

I call it the "Huffers Delight".

# ? Feb 28, 2022 02:15

DiHK: Feb 4, 2013; by Azathoth

NTRabbit posted:

ICM just announced they're out of action for a while, for obvious reasons

I have an ICM model. Outstanding kit.

# ? Mar 2, 2022 22:50

Yooper: Apr 30, 2012

My kid got an AMT Shelby Mustang kit for his birthday and it is the worst kit I have ever seen. It's even worse then the bootleg Russian BTR I tried to make last year. There is so much flash it's like someone tried to fix the mold with a ball peen hammer. We're gonna go with it, because it was a gift, but holy poo poo, this thing is terrible.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 02:57

sarujin_nz: May 1, 2006

Yooper posted:

My kid got an AMT Shelby Mustang kit for his birthday and it is the worst kit I have ever seen.

Totally agree. Sounds like the same kit I just finished (I picked it up from Aldi a while back as it was cheap).
Massive amounts of flash, nothing actually fits together. Non rotating front wheels.

Really makes me think I should just stick to Tamiya and Bandai, as they come perfect every time.

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Jonny Nox: Apr 26, 2008

I was going to make a joke that AMT was all reboxed '60s and '70s kits, but I checked Scalemates and it actually is just reboxed '60s and '70s kits.

Since 1980 there's been 25 cars and 3 trucks listed as new tool.

Note that that's over 4 decades.

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Skunkduster: Jul 15, 2005

Yooper posted:

My kid got an AMT Shelby Mustang kit for his birthday and it is the worst kit I have ever seen. It's even worse then the bootleg Russian BTR I tried to make last year. There is so much flash it's like someone tried to fix the mold with a ball peen hammer. We're gonna go with it, because it was a gift, but holy poo poo, this thing is terrible.

I built some lovely models as a kid in the early 80s and really enjoyed it. I wasn't experienced enough at the time to know that they were terrible kits. I was just happy to make my favorite cars and planes and was very proud of them despite all the flaws. I think it would be good to hold back your opinions on the kit and let your kid enjoy the build.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 04:05

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

Jonny Nox posted:

I was going to make a joke that AMT was all reboxed '60s and '70s kits, but I checked Scalemates and it actually is just reboxed '60s and '70s kits.

Since 1980 there's been 25 cars and 3 trucks listed as new tool.

Note that that's over 4 decades.

They've also been reboxing Star Wars and Star Trek kits from the 80s and 90s :colbert:

# ? Mar 4, 2022 12:58

tidal wave emulator: Aug 7, 2007

I've been slowly working my way through this set of AMT Enterprise kits, which are allegedly snap-together but the only way to get anything to actually fit is to remove all the locator pins and treat them like short-run kits in terms of test-fitting, gluing, filling and clean-up. I can't even imagine that they were any good when the tools were brand new either.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 13:31

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

I kind of want to do those, even if the NX-01 looks a smidge overscale.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 13:35

tidal wave emulator: Aug 7, 2007

They're certainly not unbuildable if you've got a few kits under your belt, and it's nice having them all in a constant scale rather than completely random sizes like most SF kits come in.

WIP:

# ? Mar 4, 2022 13:41

NTRabbit: Aug 15, 2012; i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches

It's originally a very old kit, I have the original version that I got in 1992 or so that just has the Enterprise, -A, and -D, long before the subsequent productions happened and they added the -B, -C, -E, and NX-01

e: I also don't remember any of the three I got being snap fit, but it was a few decades ago

NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Mar 4, 2022

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Yooper: Apr 30, 2012

SkunkDuster posted:

I built some lovely models as a kid in the early 80s and really enjoyed it. I wasn't experienced enough at the time to know that they were terrible kits. I was just happy to make my favorite cars and planes and was very proud of them despite all the flaws. I think it would be good to hold back your opinions on the kit and let your kid enjoy the build.

We're enjoying it, just taking our time. I came here to bitch to you guys, the real professionals.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 14:32

Vorenus: Jul 14, 2013

I bought the Enterprise-E way back because it looks cool and it was pretty cheap, I think I was an hour into it when I just threw it in the trash and started on something else.

Made some progress on the M1: After cutting out and sanding several pieces, I discovered that all 3 bottles of cement I had were bone dry. Thankfully, a nearby store has Mr. Cement so I didn't have to do the usual hour round trip for hobby supplies.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 16:08

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

tidal wave emulator posted:

They're certainly not unbuildable if you've got a few kits under your belt, and it's nice having them all in a constant scale rather than completely random sizes like most SF kits come in.

WIP:

Having actually checked it seems the NX-01 is a lot larger a ship than the TV show made it seem. That's a pretty cool set. I may invest in it someday.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 18:35

DiHK: Feb 4, 2013; by Azathoth

Jonny Nox posted:

I was going to make a joke that AMT was all reboxed '60s and '70s kits, but I checked Scalemates and it actually is just reboxed '60s and '70s kits.

Since 1980 there's been 25 cars and 3 trucks listed as new tool.

Note that that's over 4 decades.

It's even better than that, they made new box art and decals to go in these old crap kits.

Arquinsiel posted:

Having actually checked it seems the NX-01 is a lot larger a ship than the TV show made it seem. That's a pretty cool set. I may invest in it someday.

I still don't believe the scale is right on the either the NX-01 or the NCC1701 at 1:1000. Google, probably via memory-alpha(currently blocked?), has the beam of NX-01 at half the width of NCC1701D.

At 1:1000 a true scale NX-01 would likely be dinky and disappointing so I get the why of it but like stop that AMT.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 19:11

Skunkduster: Jul 15, 2005

Yooper posted:

We're enjoying it, just taking our time. I came here to bitch to you guys, the real professionals.

I helped my daughter build a few of the BearGguy snap together gundam models and she really enjoyed them, so I started a plane model with her. It wasn't a bad model by any means (Tamiya 1:72 P-51 Mustang), but certainly a lot more fiddly than a beargguy and I had to bite my tongue a couple times to keep the experience positive for her. There will be plenty of time later in life for her to learn that scale modeling is all about disappointment and frustration.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 19:27

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

DiHK posted:

It's even better than that, they made new box art and decals to go in these old crap kits.

I still don't believe the scale is right on the either the NX-01 or the NCC1701 at 1:1000. Google, probably via memory-alpha(currently blocked?), has the beam of NX-01 at half the width of NCC1701D.

At 1:1000 a true scale NX-01 would likely be dinky and disappointing so I get the why of it but like stop that AMT.

Apparently they're a 1:2500 set, but length-wise the NX-01 is supposedly about a third of the NCC-1701-D. I just didn't realise it was within 50m of Constitution class given the crew complements are like ~80 peeps to ~430.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 20:03

DiHK: Feb 4, 2013; by Azathoth

Ah, the box doesn't have a scale so I figured they were reusing the 1:1000 separate kits I have. My two kits are virtually the same diameter in the saucer.

I just don't think they give a poo poo about the scale in regards to fictional space ships.

I'm at work but I have a finished NX-01 here, tempted to get my scale ruler out.... nah I'm not that bored yet.

# ? Mar 4, 2022 20:18

Immolat1on: Sep 9, 2005

How do y'all go about dusting your models? So many nooks and crannies I can't really get to... and so many antennas and mirrors begging to be knocked off...

# ? Mar 8, 2022 00:24

grassy gnoll: Aug 27, 2006; The pawsting business is tough work.

Gentle dry blast from the airbrush, mainly. Works great on keyboards and computer components, too.

# ? Mar 8, 2022 00:29

Chuck_D: Aug 25, 2003

I follow Luke Towan's method: a very soft brush (a makeup brush) and a vacuum. Use the former to brush the dust towards the latter.

# ? Mar 8, 2022 02:30

Blue Footed Booby: Oct 4, 2006; got those happy feet

I don't.

# ? Mar 8, 2022 02:51

Charliegrs: Aug 10, 2009

Tamiya makes what looks like a really nice anti static brush but it's like $20

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The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

I dust the ships off with the airbrush. Anything that doesn't get removed that way just becomes part of the model!

# ? Mar 8, 2022 08:08

Fearless: Sep 3, 2003; DRINK MORE MOXIE

tidal wave emulator posted:

I've been slowly working my way through this set of AMT Enterprise kits, which are allegedly snap-together but the only way to get anything to actually fit is to remove all the locator pins and treat them like short-run kits in terms of test-fitting, gluing, filling and clean-up. I can't even imagine that they were any good when the tools were brand new either.

I built a variety of Star Trek kits from AMT in the 90s and they were pretty rough in terms of gaps and misaligned parts even then.

In terms of dusting my tall ship... I don't. I paid for a large display case to protect the project I had plowed hundreds of hours into and all I have to do is wipe it down with Windex occasionally.

Fearless fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Mar 8, 2022

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Spectral Elvis posted:

This rules. If I find I have the spending money some day I should commission one. Gerwalks will always steal the show.

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